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Click here to subscribeA pair of Samson porcelain figures in the Derby manner, a standing figure of a young man playing bagpipes, and a woman playing a lute, with a dog and a sheep at their feet, bocage to background, on rococo pattern bases, 7ins high (crowned "D" mark in orange to base - with slight damage to end of lute and bocage).
Continental Porcelain: to include a scent bottle painted with two ladies within a garden, one playing a lute, within a raised gilded scroll cartouche on an apple green ground, Also a K.P.M. jug painted with a Lady and Gentleman, with raised gilt leaves, (lacking lid) Also an oval plaque (cut from the face of a vase) painted with a lady holding a child watching another lady gardening, 19th century (thin piece restuck from the rim of the plaque) (3).
A pair of Derby candlestick figures, in 18th century style, each in the form of a seated shepherd or shepherdess, he playing a pipe, a hound at his feet, she playing a lute, a lamb at her feet, each decorated in coloured enamels, before floral bocage, and flanked by two pierced sconces, the pierced shell and scroll moulded base picked out in puce and gilt, 21cm high (8 1/4"), blue crossed swords marks, circa 1820-30 (minor restoration)
A "Clobbered" Chinese Blue and White Trumpet Beaker Vase, the porcelain early 1700's, Kangxi Period, the bulb, flared neck and foot all filled with "Long Eliza" scenes, a company of female musicians and entertainers before a seated lady and her retinue, four maidens in a garden preparing a lute (jin) and two ladies by a potted shrub, the original vibrant blue embellished in salmon, green, yellow, purple, iron red and gold, wood stand, artemisia leaf mark in underglaze blue, {43cm} (minor rubbing to gilding).
A Blue and White Jar, Kangxi period, painted in outline with some areas of hatched shading as a 'blank' for application of 'doucai' enamels, with a continuous scene of scholars and attendants in a fenced garden, the attendants bearing various gifts, including a ding censer and a covered lute, above and below borders of symmetrical circles, wood cover, 16cm., 6.25in.
Four Mintons Hollins & Co 'eight-inch' Shakespearean tiles, designed by John Moyr Smith, transfer-printed in basically grey tones and pale blue with theatrical subjects, 'Under the Greenwood Tree', 'Orpheus with his lute', 'And let me the canakin clink' and ' Sigh no more Ladies', artist's name on fronts and moulded maker's marks on reverse.
A PAIR OF SAMSON CHELSEA DERBY STYLE CANDLESTICK GROUPS modelled as a musician and his companion, he seated on a stump before a bocage, playing the pipes wearing a pink jacket, floral sprigged waistcoat and purple breeches, a dog at his feet, she seated, playing a lute, wearing a pale green blouse and a floral sprigged panelled orange skirt, a lamb at her side, both with two candle sconces, supported on brances behind, on a scrolled plinth, gilt double S mark, r11 1/4in. (28.5cm.) high++Damages
Aristotle. Problematon [graece], 116 ff., Alexander Aphrodisaeus. Iatrikon Aphorematon kai Physikon Problematon [graece], 42 ff., Aristotle. Mechanika [graece], 12 ff., first edition, part only of the collected Aldine edition, printed in Greek throughout, occasional spotting, bookplate of John Alfred Spranger, Trinity College, Cambridge, contemporary brown calf over pasteboards, covers elaborately decorated in blind, 2 rolls, one including putti (one playing a lute), vases and foliage, the other including birds, animals and foliage, surround a central panel made up of 6 more rolls, worn, rebacked, corners with some repairs, folio, [BMC V 556-7; Goff A 959; GW 2334], [Venice, Aldus Manutius, 1 June, 1497].*** Part of vol. 4 of the great Aldine Aristotle, the editio princeps of 'the first major Greek prose text to be reintroduced in the original to the western world by the intervention of the printing press'. [PMM 38].
A Fine 19th Century Vienna Porcelain Two Tiered Table. The round top painted with Cupid, Psyche and attendant offering a basket of flowers, with a pair of white doves nestling in a cluster of roses signed Forster, framed in a broad colbalt blue border enriched with gilding and contained in a moulded gilt brass rim. The three blue glazed column supports with ornate gilt decoration leading down to the lower tier painted with etherial figures of a woman sat playing a lute and cherubs floating amongst billowing clouds, raised on gilt metal acorn knop feet, 27.5 ins (70 cms) high, 19.5 ins (49 cms) in diameter.
A pair of Derby figures of a shepherd musician and companion, each modelled seated on flowering bocage, the shepherd playing pipes, a hound at his side, his companion with a lute, a lamb at her side, on scroll-moulded bases, painted in colours and gilt, 16.5cm high, incised N 301, circa 1770 (shepherdess lacks an arm, other small chips and damage)
A late Meissen group of musicians and cherubs, late 19th century, the group centred by a lute playing girl and her boy companion surrounded by cherubic infants and a goat and a young violin playing man pouring a drink into a beaker helped by his female companion in polychrome enamels on gilt scroll base, underglaze blue, cross swords mark stamped 101 and 163 and incised 59, chipped, 14 in (35.56 cm) high